UCLA Students Seek Court Order on Pro-Palestinian Encampments

LOS ANGELES—Three Jewish students who sued UCLA for allegedly allowing “antisemitic activists” to set up an encampment that stopped the students from attending classes are asking a judge to ban such activities before students arrive on campus for the fall semester in August. In the initial Los Angeles federal court complaint filed June 5, two law students and an undergraduate student contend that UCLA allowed a group of students and outsiders to set up the encampment, the participants of which stopped Jewish students and faculty from accessing the heart of campus. The plaintiffs contend that the pro-Palestinian zones broke civil rights laws and discriminated against the university’s Jewish students. In papers filed Monday, the plaintiffs are asking for a court order preventing UCLA from allowing the encampments in the future....